Inspired by the minimalist design of his iMac, Jordan Patterson from The Cheap Geek created a custom desk for his office that would hide his power and ethernet cables. He designed the desk in SketchUp and set out to build it with a budget of $150. In order to keep things cheap, he forwent a solid wood desktop and opted to use a $10 wooden door that he found at a surplus building supply warehouse. The sawhorse legs are constructed from pieces of pine glued together and two of the legs are hollow to act as a conduit for the cabling. Jordan finished the surfaces with black wood stain as opposed to paint in order to leave some of the wood texture visible. Check out this video for a tour of the finished product. Nice work, Jordan! [via Lifehacker]

Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based creative technologist and Contributing Editor at MAKE. He’s the co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and the author of Getting Started with BeagleBone.